Re: How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp

2005-02-16 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:29:21PM +, Ian G wrote: > Peter Gutmann wrote: > > >Barry Shein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Eventually email will just collapse (as it's doing) and the RBOCs et al will > >>inherit it and we'll all be paying 15c per message like their SMS services. > > > >And the

Re: [p2p-hackers] SHA1 broken?

2005-02-16 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:55:15AM -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > From: "Serguei Osokine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Peer-to-peer development." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [p2p-hackers] SHA1 broken? > Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:11:07 -0800 > > Okay, so the effective SHA-1 length is 138 bits

Re: Dell to Add Security Chip to PCs

2005-02-04 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:45:01PM -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > Isn't it possible to emulate the TCPA chip in software, using one's own > RSA key, and thus signing whatever you damn well please with it instead > of whatever the chip wants to sign? So in reality, as far as remote > attestation goe

Re: An interesting thread...Hacking Bluetooth

2004-12-22 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:48:01PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > Oh no, it gets really interesting. He claims to be an ex-German TLA-type > (how many Ls do German TLAs normally have?), and had advanced knowledge of > 9/11. That's not super-implausible. [..] > Me? I suspect he just pulled all thi

Re: nyms being attacked by malware

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:16:11AM +0100, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: > I've noticed a very high increase of incoming virii and malicious code of > various sorts to one of my nyms. Since the nym is not used anywhere > publically I really wonder if these are deliberate attacks to try to > c

Re: bin Laden gets a Promotion

2004-10-30 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 02:29:51PM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote: > GodDAMN George W is a dumb fuck. > > If the guy's IQ had broken the 3-digit barrier he might have figured out > that by nearly directly replying to the new bin Laden video he's basically > elevating bin Laden to a hostile head-of-st

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:30:35AM -0400, Sunder wrote: > Oops! Is that a cat exiting the bag? > > > http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78 Apparently so. Going to www.blackboxvoting.org now just gives: This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as so

Olympics snooping

2004-08-09 Thread Eric Murray
http://sports.yahoo.com/oly/news?slug=ap-securitytech&prov=ap&type=lgns Unprecedented electronic net over the Olympics By MIRON VAROUHAKIS, Associated Press Writer August 9, 2004 ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- If you're going to the Olympics, you'd better be careful what you say and do in public. Sof

Re: On how the NSA can be generations ahead

2004-08-01 Thread Eric Murray
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:20:38AM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > > Tyler D asked about how the NSA could be so far ahead. > > Besides their ability to make 2" sq. chips at 10% yield (not > > something a commercial entity could get away with) >

FIPS chassis/linux security engineer?

2004-07-17 Thread Eric Murray
Does anyone know of a manufacturer of FIPS 140 certified or certifiable 1u/2u rack mount chassis? For a seperate project, does anyone know of a small linux-ready/able box with ethernet? Gumstix looks cool but I need hardwire networking. Last, I'm looking for a Linux expert security engineer in

recent brute-force work factor calculations

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Murray
Does anyone know of a recent brute-force work factor calculation for the various common symmetric ciphers? I.e. it'll take X 3.2gh Xeons Y years to brute cipher Z. I know there's a table of these in Schneier and there's the "Seven Cryptographers" paper but they're both pretty old at this point.

Re: Windows source leaked?

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:25:11PM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > I wonder if frags of OSS code can be found in proprietary binaries. Of course. Here's an example of MS using BSD code: http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/19/05641/7357 and another: http://austinlug.org/archi

Re: Windows source leaked?

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:45:34AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: (in reply to someone else) > > >Lots has been said about OSS developers not wanting to look at this > >for fear that they will be "tainted." While it is true that simply > >the act of looking at the code is unauthorized and ille

Re: unsub from lne

2003-12-29 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:42:56AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: >Hmm, maybe Eric needs to undo his spam filter so people can unsub from > lne.com. I just tried to, but it was rejected as undeliverable "spam". Tried I'm experimenting with a new sendmail milter. (the SMTP HELO arg needs to be rea

Re: unsub from lne

2003-12-29 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:58:03PM +0100, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Another alternative could be a couple lines of PHP or perl, unsubscribing > via a web form. > > On related note, what's a good node to migrate to? pro-ns.net is running a CDR similar to lne. A number of other people have gotten m

lne.com CDR to close

2003-12-23 Thread Eric Murray
The lne.com CDR node will stop accepting new subscriptions on Jan 1 2004, and will stop forwarding cypherpunks mail on Jan 15. There are other nodes currently and hopefully more will announce themselves. I've learned a lot on the cpunks list over the last 10 years and I'd like to thank some of th

Re: Speaking of Reason

2003-12-09 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:05:29PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > Since Eric Murray has expressed distaste with my views I pretty much agree with your views, minus the racism and misogny. On days that the brilliant thoughtful Tim posts, I'm in awe. When Tim the asshole posts, I

Re: cypherpunks discussions

2003-12-08 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:31:07AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > The advantage of eg Yahoo groups (and presumably blogs) > is their moderation; the lack thereof enabled spammers to > bulldoze the commons of usenet. Inevitable. I've been hearing about blog-spamming lately, and I've seen

Re: cypherpunks discussions

2003-12-08 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:21:21AM -0800, Sarad AV wrote: > I prefer not getting flamed like every one else and that > too in quick succesion :-). so my guess is that as far > as newbies are concerned all the discussions are taken > private. This is why the cpunks list has very little new subscri

Re: Lucrative update

2003-11-26 Thread Eric Murray
Somoneone at monash.edu.au was resending old mails.

Re: Lucrative update mail flood

2003-11-26 Thread Eric Murray
Sorry about the mail storm. Someone at monash.edu.au has apparently set up a mail loop that was resubmitting cpunks mails. Eric

[declan@well.com: [Politech] FBI visits John Young, asks about anti-government activity [fs]]

2003-11-05 Thread Eric Murray
- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:01:52 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Politech] FBI visits John Young, asks about anti-government activity [fs] John Young is a longtime supporter of

Re: Palladium/TCPA/NGSCB

2003-10-23 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:59:47AM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > And virii that infect the immune system can be fun too --imagine a virus > infecting your antiviral program. HIV for Windows. Or a virus that modifes your other programs to make them appear to be known virii. You'd have to t

Re: Verisign's Wildcard A-Records and DNSSEC Plans?

2003-09-17 Thread Eric Murray
ISC is releasing a new BIND to deal with the Verisign land-grab: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/6791550.htm

Re: GPG Sig test

2003-09-12 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:08:00PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: > Configure your demime to *not* strip attachments of > application/pgp-signature. If someone knows how, please tell me. Eric

SSH MITM (was Re: Getting certificates)

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:48:55PM -0700, James A. Donald wrote: > > On 4 Sep 2003 at 7:56, Eric Murray wrote: > > ..which means that it [ssh-- ericm] still requires an OOB authentication. > > (or blinding typing 'yes' and ignoring the consequences). But > >

[gshively@pivx.com: Blaster / Power Outage Follow up]

2003-09-04 Thread Eric Murray
- Forwarded message from Geoff Shively <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Geoff Shively" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Blaster / Power Outage Follow up Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:31:34 -0700 As suggested the day of the blackout, SCADA / DCS security was a primary factor in

Re: A day in the life

2003-07-21 Thread Eric Murray
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:07:58PM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: [ID experience at giant mega-corp casino] [ID experience at Jiffy-loob] If you patronize only corporate mega-stores, this is what you get. None of the (locally-owned) resturants I eat breakfast at do any loyalty card bullshit, they

Re: MRAM, persistance of memory

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:45:58PM +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Eric Murray wrote: > > I doubt it as well. DRAM also has power-off memory persistence > > and nearly everyone in security ignores that as well. > > > > But not the spooks : > >

Re: MRAM, persistance of memory

2003-07-09 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:23:55AM -0700, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: > Wired has an article on magetic RAM > http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59559,00.html > that fails to mention security implications. Obviously > nonvolitile RAM presents a different security risk than > RAM that forget

Re: idea: brinworld meets the credit card

2003-07-08 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:16:36PM -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Authentication is "Something you have / know / are." [..] > A picture glued into the card could be forged, but a > smartcard (with more data area than a magstripe) > could include a picture of the account holder, > so a thief

Re: Razor

2003-06-08 Thread Eric Murray
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 06:00:51PM -0700, A.Melon wrote: > I don't care about The Rat's postings like some of > my anonymous associates, but someone's razor > reporting is inaccurate. Some spam from this list > has been revoked at razor so it drops down below > 30% confidence, when it shouldn't be

[PaulLambert@AirgoNetworks.Com: Re: BIS Disk Full]

2003-06-04 Thread Eric Murray
- Forwarded message from Paul Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Re: BIS Disk Full Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 22:50:20 -0700 Thread-Topic: Re: BIS Disk Full Thread-Index: AcMpAGDW0rLn6AHCQFSmRRWCM9LG7QAkdTWg From: "Paul Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Orig-To: "Declan M

[eb@comsec.com: Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down]

2003-06-04 Thread Eric Murray
- Forwarded message from Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:50:37 -0700 From: Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Orig-To: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], EKR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Guthery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, R

[eay@pobox.com: Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down]

2003-06-04 Thread Eric Murray
g-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: EKR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Guthery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cypherpunks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: M

[eb@comsec.com: Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down]

2003-06-04 Thread Eric Murray
- Forwarded message from Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:25:50 -0700 From: Eric Blossom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Orig-To: John Kelsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], EKR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Guthery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, R

Re: U.S. Drops 'E-Bomb' On Iraqi TV

2003-03-26 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:24:01AM -0800, Sarad AV wrote: > it doesnt matter as long as Al-Jazeera is live and > kicking and the camera's are rolling. Yesterday morning I could get to english.aljazeera.net. As of yesterday afternoon, it has become unavailable. Supposedly they are "victims of ha

Re: IDEA

2003-03-22 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 09:40:50AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > IDEA is listed on the fourth line, so it seems IDEA was installed with > OpenSSL, but MixMaster's install may be improperly detecting that IDEA > is absent. It's when I run the Mixmaster install that I get the > error: > >

Re: surveillance nation

2003-03-18 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:17:21PM -0500, Sunder wrote: > Interesting, lne.com flagged this as spam. We probably rejected the SMTP connection as coming from a source that's sent us spam in the past. Read the bounce message and use the URL to send me the ID code please. There's no content-based s

Re: To Steve Schear, re Rome, Architects, Shuttles, Congress

2003-02-21 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:32:43PM -0500, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > Carburetor? Didn't that connect to the phonograph through a cat's whisker? Carburetor is French for "leave it alone". While only one of my cars is old enough to have a carb, all but one of the 10 or so motorcycles in the g

Re: Digital Certificates

2003-02-18 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:22:21PM -0800, Joseph Ashwood wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone has a digital certificate issuing system I > could get a few certificates issued from. Trust is not an issue since these > are development-only certs, and won't be used for anything except testing > pur

Re: The practical reason the U.S. is starting a war

2003-02-14 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:54:33AM -0800, Tim May wrote: > I've been watching the Security Council session this morning. Positions > are established. The French diplomat gave a wonderful speech, but its all for show. The real decisions are made in the back rooms. [..] > * The reason is clear:

ClearChannel memo "Preparing for war"

2003-02-13 Thread Eric Murray
Appropriate to the recent media thread, a leaked ClearChannel memo on some station's war preperations: http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1329 They're clearly salivating at the prospect. Eric

Re: Shuttle Humor, Risk Estimation

2003-02-03 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:01:41PM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote: > The biggest question there is why didn't they inspect it? Seems very > bizarre, since that's what they did in the past. All the KH-71s were busy mapping Iraq's oil fields and photographing Saddam's nose hairs. Eric

Re: Life Sentence for Medical Marijuana?

2003-01-31 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:50:00PM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77234,00.html > > The Feebs are crowing over their latest victory, having just obtained a > conviction against a medical marijuana grower for the city of Oakland. They went after Ed Rosenthal becau

Re: Cpunks: The Tee-shirt

2002-12-12 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:11:21PM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > I was poking around thinkgeek, and it appears that > the CDR now has it's own tee-shirt. > Suitable for old farts and wannabes alike. > Now available in black! > > Peter Trei > http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/coder/57ee/ Not "The Fed

CDR administrivia

2002-12-04 Thread Eric Murray
I've just been made aware of a bug in my CDR code that causes MIME-encoded mail that uses the (rare) Content-Type: multipart/mixed to get dropped into the bit bucket. I'll fix it soon, but in the mean time please post in plain ASCII. You should post in plain ascii anyhow since any MIME gets demime

Re: stego building

2002-11-25 Thread Eric Murray
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 03:54:13PM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote: > That, or it's a dot-com that didn't make it, > or an office-space construction that someone hoped to sell to a dot-com > but missed the boom. There's huge amounts of that in SF. They wouldn't have security if it was empty, and would

Re: Q: opportunistic email encryption

2002-11-22 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 09:23:57PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Question: if you control the traffic layer you can easily disrupt > opportunistic encryption (STARTTLS & Co) by killing public key exchange, > or even do a MITM. An attacker can prevent opportunistic STARTTLS by modifying the STARTTLS

[perry@piermont.com: The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Libraries]

2002-11-05 Thread Eric Murray
This will come as no suprise to people on this list. - Forwarded message from "Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Libraries From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05 Nov 2002 18:

Re: Details on lne.com's blocking of Cypherpunks posts??

2002-10-28 Thread Eric Murray
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 06:31:40PM -0800, Tim May wrote: > On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > [Hmm. lne.com spam-blocked me on the first attempt. > > Can you provide details? > > If lne.com is blocking posts, I will have to find another CP node. Lne has been

Re: The Register - UK firm touts alternative to digital certs (fwd)

2002-10-21 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 03:37:33PM +0100, David Howe wrote: > at Monday, October 21, 2002 3:14 PM, Trei, Peter > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say: > > I'd be nervous about a availability with centralized servers, > > even if they are "triple redundant with two sites". DDOS > > attacks, infrastru

List administrivia

2002-10-18 Thread Eric Murray
Please, if your site uses "bad" word search software (i.e. below) or fascist black hole listings, subscribe to the cpunks list through a different email account. lne.com is listed on a couple of the most extreme "black hole" lists (because we are incorrectly listed as being in a Verio netblock, and

Re: Echelon-like...

2002-10-10 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:28:26AM -, anonimo arancio wrote: [..] > But I am wondering if Cypherpunks have mentioned the 'obvious'. > > The government knows exactly what it's doing. It wants to discourage the use of >encryption by any means necessary, because of sheer numbers. > Basically,

Re: Trojan-modified Sendmail floating around - 8.12.6 - Since Sept. 28th or earlier.

2002-10-09 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:01:21PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > Bill Stewart wrote: > > Somebody backdoored the source code for Sendmail on the official server. > > So if you recompile from scratch, your sendmail is 0wned. > > Another reason not to run mail systems as root > > In this case, as

Re: smartcards

2002-09-29 Thread Eric Murray
Someone who's sending from a mailer that lne.com blocks because of spam said: - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [...] > When Chaumian money comes into wide use, I think that for most > end users we will have to stash

Re: What good are smartcard readers for PCs

2002-09-24 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:12:47PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > "James A. Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Increasingly however, we see smartcard interfaces sold for PCs. What for, I > >wonder? A previous company I worked for made a secure smart-card reader chip/system that used smart

I see everything twice!

2002-09-03 Thread Eric Murray
It looks like one of the CDRs, possibly algebra, is changing the Message-ID on cpunks mail and redistributing it to the CDRs-- I'm seeing two copies of each message, one of which has an X-Algebra header in it. Could the algebra maintainer check this out? Thanks. Eric

Re: right MTA for crypto support

2002-08-28 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:26:47PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (actually, I wrote:) > >It's relatively easy to turn on TLS in sendmail. It's not secure against > >active attackers that can modify the data in the TCP stream but it's better > >than nothin

Re: right MTA for crypto support

2002-08-27 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:53:08AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > I'm getting rather pissed at diverse wiretap legislations making the > global rounds (lately EU is making noises towards storing a one year deep > FIFO of all email and browsing traffic for all users), and would like to > run my own MT

Re: Thanks, Lucky, for helping to kill gnutella

2002-08-09 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:05:15AM -0700, AARG! Anonymous wrote: > > On Gnutella discussion sites, programmers are discussing a number of > > technical proposals that would make access to the network contingent > > on good behavior: If you write code that hurts Gnutella, in other > > words, you

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:33:43PM -0700, James A. Donald wrote: > According to Microsoft, the end user can turn the palladium > hardware off, and the computer will still boot. As long as that > is true, it is an end user option and no one can object. > > But this is not what the content prov

Re: Challenge to David Wagner on TCPA

2002-08-01 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:45:35PM -0700, AARG! Anonymous wrote: > Peter Trei writes: > > AARG!, our anonymous Pangloss, is strictly correct - Wagner should have > > said "could" rather than "would". > > So TCPA and Palladium "could" restrict which software you could run. TCPA (when it isn't tur

Re: What happened to cypherpunks?

2002-07-29 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:56:31PM +0100, Ken Brown wrote: > This is just a test message to see if it gets back to me. > > No traffic on lne or ssz though here for 24 hours. > Which after a few 100 in previous 2 days seems odd. Ssz seems to have gotten itself put in most of the open relay black

Re: Tunneling through a hostile proxy?

2002-07-23 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:42:49AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: > If you're interested in tunneling other protocols > than HTTP, things get more complex. Assuming > SSL tunneling is allowed you can run other > protocols through it if you can set up the software > at each end appropriatly. So who's

Re: economics of DRM, was Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-15 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 07:10:07PM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 10:59:23AM -0700, Eric Murray wrote: > > Microsoft does not do things simply because they enjoy being evil. > > They are not so worried about Linux (with its small share of the market) >

economics of DRM, was Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-13 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 06:34:36PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Eric Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 07:14:55PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > >>From a purely economic perspectice, I can't see how this will fly. I'll pull a >

Re: Ross's TCPA paper

2002-07-12 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 07:14:55PM +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > > >From a purely economic perspectice, I can't see how this will fly. I'll pull a > random figure of $5 out of thin air (well, I saw it mentioned somewhere but > can't remember the source) as the additional manufacturing cost for t

Re: TPM cost constraint [was: RE: Revenge of the WAVEoid]

2002-07-08 Thread Eric Murray
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 07:13:54AM -0700, Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote: > At 07:05 PM 7/6/02 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:,> > Adding the cost of an EMBASSY or SEE environment to the,>purchase of > every new PC is more than the market for bare-bones or even,>mid-range > PC's will bear.,>,>--Lucky,> >

Re: politicians vs. bill of rights (your legislature on drugs)

2002-06-14 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 09:22:58AM -0700, Khoder bin Hakkin wrote: > SACRAMENTO -- Dismayed by new disclosures of the use of steroids in > Major League Baseball, a state senator wants to force most professional > sports teams to test athletes for performance enhancing drugs if they > play > games

Re: What's with all the spam?...

2002-06-12 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:15:37AM -0700, Tim May wrote: > > I like the LNE node, but a lot of junk still seems to get through. If > Eric is only passing through the posts of subscribers, does this mean > this person "houshen2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" is a list subscriber? [chinese spam deleted]

Re: What's with all the spam?...

2002-06-12 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 07:58:49AM +0200, Tom wrote: > > speaking of unfiltered - I subscribed to ssz exactly because I don't > want to have anyone moderating for me. however, the spam volume is > deafening. The LNE node isn't moderated. All posts from list subscribers, to any CDR, plus any post

Re: Eyes on the Prize...not the Millicent Ghetto

2002-05-13 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:20:35PM -0700, Morlock Elloi wrote: > > Go after those who already _know_ they need untraceability. Go after > > niches where VALUE >> COST. Don't try to argue that the world needs to > > replace its multi-billion dollar infrastructure of > > The question is - are t

Re: Australian government proposed 'terror laws'

2002-05-10 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 04:35:29AM +1000, Julian Assange wrote: > Australia needs your help! > > The Howard government is using the `war on terrorism' as justification > to introduce so called `Asian Values' (a euphonism used by Mahathir > to explain his governments removal of rights from the Mal

Re: all about transferable off-line ecash (Re: Brands off-line tech)

2002-04-09 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:37:05AM +0200, Anonymous wrote: > [Copied to Adam so he doesn't have to wait for some moderator to get > off his fat ass and approve it. The LNE CDR isn't moderated in the usual sense. However, postings from new users[1] don't go through until I look at them (since ab

[garww@antisocial.com: cached web pages]

2002-04-05 Thread Eric Murray
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Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

2002-03-26 Thread Eric Murray
Here's the distribution of RSA key sizes in SSL servers, as recorded by my SSL server survey in June 2000 and June 2001 RSA Server Key size Key bits2000 2001 2048 .2% .2% 1024 70% 80% >= 1

Re: Let's knock off the "Reformatted" repostings of junky news articles

2002-03-15 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:39:20AM -0800, Tim May wrote: > On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 09:20 AM, Nomen Nescio wrote: > > > Please take a moment and properly format your postings. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anonymous) writes: > > > >> "[Mr. Blair] said he'd put more police on the street. Well t

Re: Carnivore goes public

2002-03-06 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:13:40AM +0100, Anonymous wrote: > Got this spam recently. This is probably the best way to innoculate public > against the state-run snooping, because the NEXT thing to come is defense against > this snooping. Once everyone is aware of it the effects of snooping are grat

Re: DC to get spycams --"no choice but to accept it"

2002-02-13 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 11:27:50AM -0500, Greg Newby wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:17:19AM -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote: > > > > [domestic surveillance, brinworld, big bro, pseudosecurity] > > > > NEW YORK (Reuters) - Washington police are building what will > > be the nation's bigg

Re: spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:36:29AM +0200, Jei wrote: > My logic tells me it is best to ensure the widest coverage to issues you > care about, get as many sources as you can, and simply ram down the facts > as many people's troats as you can, Many people on this list don't appreciate having stuff

spam attack on cpunks list

2002-02-05 Thread Eric Murray
Lne.com CDR subscribers won't see them, but someone is signing up the ssz node to a lot of web mail lists roughly 30 as of this morning. The IP addr of the host generating the subscription requests is 62.211.132.149, which appears to belong to tin.it. Have at it. Spam on cpunks has gone WAY

Re: propagation test

2002-01-28 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:08:21PM -0800, Morlock Elloi wrote: > For some reason lne.com drops my posts ... "drops my posts" is hard to debug. A bit of information would make it easier. Eric (lne.com bit janitor)

[geer@world.std.com: Re: biometrics]

2002-01-24 Thread Eric Murray
This is from the cryptography list: - Forwarded message from Dan Geer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Authentication-Warning: world.std.com: geer@localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: biometrics In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed,

Re: Blueberry encryption for boston pigs?

2002-01-15 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:37:03AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15 Jan 2002, at 10:26, Eric Murray wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:44:46AM -0600, xganon wrote: > > > We are interested in the 'encryption' used in these > > > over-the

Re: Blueberry encryption for boston pigs?

2002-01-15 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:44:46AM -0600, xganon wrote: > We are interested in the 'encryption' used in these > over-the-air queries... ARDIS, the protocol the Blackberry uses, does an XOR with a 32 bit constant of the day. Eric

Re: MY APPOLOGIES TO ALL CYPHERPUNKS - WAS Re: Returned mail:

2001-12-18 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 09:04:46AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All nite long i've been spammed by the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm > sure we've all seen the numerous messages on here. > > Anyway - my autoresponder has been responding to these messages and as a > result a number of bounced

[jei@cc.hut.fi: FBI Surveillance Software to be Part of Windows XP Updates (fwd)]

2001-12-13 Thread Eric Murray
This should have gone directly to the cypherpunks list. - Forwarded message from Jei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:33:28 +0200 (EET) From: Jei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Orig-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FBI Surveillance Software to be Part of Windows

Re: A note to virus authors

2001-12-07 Thread Eric Murray
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 02:09:31PM +, Will Morton wrote: > > I always thought that the best strategy would be to look through all > mail folders, find the last email received from the target, and use the > subject from that, adding 'Re: ' at the start. Delete the body of the > mail and

Re: Fwd: Reputation capital

2001-12-05 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:07:47AM -0800, Tim May wrote: > [Retransmission. Due to periodic problems with lne.com, I started > sending my messages to ssz.com a few days ago. Alas, ssz.com has had an > outage. Hence these retransmissions. Sorry for any dupes.] The problems lne was having have b

Re: ssz switchover test

2001-12-05 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:44:54AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > testing lne: ssz appears down hard :-( Mail to ssz has been backed up at lne since midnight tuesday. The list of CDRs is at: http://www.lne.com/cpunk/ Eric

Re: WTF is going on ??

2001-11-28 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 07:14:39PM -, Secret Squirrel wrote: > - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (reason: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknown) > > - Transcript of session follows - > ... while talking to meer.meer.net.: > >>> R

[gnu@toad.com: cypherpunks@toad.com is going away]

2001-11-27 Thread Eric Murray
It's the end of an era. - Forwarded message from John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Authentication-Warning: toad.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Sixpack Encryption Email client

2001-11-26 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:12:38PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I gave a little bit of thought about what an encrypted email client > should look like for joe sixpack to use. Here's how the DEFAULT > behavior would work: > > When you install the software, it generates a public-private ke

Re: The killing of Bill Cooper and Liquid Metal Embrittlement

2001-11-14 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 05:49:34PM -0800, John Young wrote: > How would the LME work on the interior structure of the plane? > The skin has little structural strength but does streamline the On modern cars and aircraft the skin is a structural part. There was a post WWII DeHaviland (the Comet I

Re: lne down?

2001-10-24 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:17:54PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote: > Lne.com, at least based on what I saw, sent no outgoing messages from > about 7 pm ET yesterday until 12 noon today. We had a sendmail config error, and our network feed had a problem with some hardware. Eric

Re: Retribution Time

2001-10-22 Thread Eric Murray
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 09:15:37AM -0700, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Hear, hear. > > This sort of crap is the inevitable outcome of an unmoderated list. All the > loons come out to play because there are no real negative consequences for > being a loon. And filtering does not do anything besides b

Re: Retribution not enough

2001-10-22 Thread Eric Murray
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:44:09AM -0700, Tim May wrote: > "Sure, unions are good" is not at all obvious to me. Why do you claim > this? > > Most labor unions are simply rent-seeking clubs designed to cement the > status quo. Teacher's unions in the U.S. are a prime example: once the > union

Re: CDR Anonymizer (fwd)

2001-10-03 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 02:35:25PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm getting mail w/o a "To" line of: > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm looking for an effective procmail filtering rule. As I'm subscribed > to LNE, I'm currently filtering on: > > :0: > * ^Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MIME-encoded PGP / GPG signatures (again)

2001-09-26 Thread Eric Murray
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:42:19AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm not set up to run same, but I'm interested in finding one that > doesn't demime. http://www.lne.com/cpunk has an up-to-date list of the different CDRs and their policies. Eric

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